Word: kanes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruiser Houston, unreported for the three-and-a-half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...
...Author Harnett Kane of New Orleans told of Louisiana elections held in white bars or bordellos, which no Negro dared enter. He recalled Huey Long's remark after the Legislature repealed Louisiana's poll tax in 1934: "The white primary will take care of the nigger...
...recent faddism over self-taught (modern "primitive") painters has not spoiled thin, bespectacled Fred Papsdorf.He has had modest success and has gotten museum ranking after only six years of serious oil painting. But he still reminds art circles of the late, great, triumphantly simple Pittsburgh "primitive," John Kane...
Died. Grenville Kane, 89, last surviving founder of tony Tuxedo Park; in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. A Manhattan lawyer (later director of many railroads), he helped Tobacconist Pierre Lorillard III plan the 400's baronial super-suburb in 1881. Descended from early American landlords (the Irish O'Kanes), Kane was the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, oldest member of New York's arch-Republican Union League Club...
...reason for all these typographical fireworks could only be conjectured by Angelenos. But definitely not in the realm of conjecture were these facts: 1) two years ago Scenarist Mankiewicz had collaborated with Actor-Producer Orson Welles on the script for Citizen Kane, a picture which irresistibly reminded many of the career of William Randolph Hearst; 2) the film reportedly made Publisher Hearst seethe...